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packetlost11/20/202420 repliesview on HN

Oh wow I wish that font was even remotely readable


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exhilaration11/20/2024

Yes the crazy sci-fi font is hard to read, but I have to give them props for being unique. I even like the grammatical mistakes, it's so different than the ultra-polished stuff we usually see here. This project has personality!

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evanjrowley11/20/2024

The code font is more readable than the rest of the website: https://artanis.dev/scheme.html

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ape411/20/2024

Dot matrix printer that's low in ink

sigio11/20/2024

Good thing there's reader mode, with a nice and large default system font

sourcepluck11/20/2024

Oh, I thought it was quite fun, and still found it easily readable

realo11/20/2024

It looks like the DUNE font:

https://www.dafont.com/dune-rise.font

accrual11/20/2024

Looks amazing with JS turned off!

graemep11/20/2024

That is horrible.

I did not see it at first as I had JS off. Once I allowed JS the font loaded and .. yuck.

einpoklum11/20/2024

At first I thought Artanis was a new font! And even reading the text I couldn't shake the impression that they were offering me this weird font with each character cut up by horizontal lines.

When I zoomed in it looks kind of cute. Maybe I should download the Artanis font after all.

rcleveng11/20/2024

Agree, had to pop this into chrome devtools to get through the page:

let newStyle = document.createElement('style'); newStyle.innerHTML = 'body { font-family: "Verdana"; background-color: #eee}'; document.head.appendChild(newStyle);

pmontra11/20/2024

I've got a dot matrix printer somewhere in a box that could reprint that site with all the dot lines, if I manage to find it and connect to a computer. I can't remember if it has a serial or parallel port.

metadat11/20/2024

If you zoom in it's pretty cool how each letter is a matrix of squares, but agreed - very challenging and distracting to try and read when the end result looks interlaced.

UncleOxidant11/20/2024

Oh, that's terrible. There's a reason we don't have dot matrix printers anymore.

initramfs11/20/2024

it would be slightly better if it were black background and green ink

DiggyJohnson11/21/2024

This complaint killed fun web design. Just use reader mode.

slater11/20/2024

I know we're not supposed to go off on website stuff (per guidelines: "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage") but jfc who thought this design was even remotely a good idea?

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systems11/20/2024

for me zooming out to 67% worked fine

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lsferreira4211/23/2024

Came here to say that, this is the first time that i had to put full attention so i can barely read that page

zelphirkalt11/20/2024

I don't see any unreadable parts and found it very readable. I guess yet again saved by not downloading random web fonts onto my machine or not running random JS. Yay! Blocking unnecessary traffic for the win!

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